l'Indi,
Tornando glorioso ai Greci lidi,
Siccom'e favoloso antico grido."

The most diversified passage of this kind (as far as I an, aware) is
Ariosto's list of his friends at the close of the _Orlando_; and yet such
writing as follows would seem to shew that it was an accident:

"Io veggio il Fracastoro, il Bevazzano,
Trifon Gabriel, e il Tasso piu lontano;
Veggo Niccolo Tiepoli, e con esso
Niccolo Amanio in me affissar le ciglia;
Auton Fulgoso, ch'a vedermi appresso
Al lito, mostra gaudio e maraviglia.
Il mio Valerio e quel che la s'e messo
Fuor de le donne," &c.

Even Metastasio, who wrote expressly for singers, and often with
exquisite modulation, especially in his songs, forgets himself when he
comes to the names of his dramatis persome,--"`Artaserse, `Artabano,
`Arbace, Mandane, Semira, Megabise,"--all in one play.

"Gran cose io temo. Il mio germano `Arbace
Parte pria de l'aurora. Il padre armato
Incontro, e non mi parla. `Accusa il cielo
`Agitato `Artaserse, e m'abbandona."

Atto i. se. 6.

I am far from intending to say that these reiterations are not sometimes
allowable, nay, often beautiful and desirable. Alliteration itself may be
rendered an exquisite instrument of music. I am only speaking of monotony
or discord in the enumeration of proper names.]

[Footnote 40: See them both in the present volume, pp. 420 and 445.]

OLINDO AND SOPHRONIA.

Argument.

The Mahomedan king of Jerusalem, at the instigation of Ismeno, a
magician, deprives a Christian church of its image of the Virgin, and
sets it up in a mosque, under a spell of enchantment, as a palladium
against the Crusaders. The image is stolen in the night; and the king,
unable to discover who has taken it, orders a massacre of the Christian
portion of his subjects, which is prevented by Sophronia's accusing
herself of the offence. Her lover, Olindo, finding her sentenced to the
stake in consequence, disputes with her the right of martyrdom. He is
condemned to suffer with her. The Amazon Clorinda, who has come to fight
on the side of Aladin, obtains their pardon in acknowledgment of her
services; and Sophronia, who had not loved Olindo before, now returns his
passion, and goes with him from the stake to the marriage-altar.

OLINDO AND SOPHRONIA.

Godfrey of Boulogne, the leader of the Crusaders, was now in full march
for Jerusalem with the Christian ar